News
June 9, 2025
Nicole Key receives title of Avrum and Joyce Gray Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Trustees ratify faculty, staff positions; approve new degree, merger, organizational name changes, posthumous degrees, resolutions of appreciation and namings
June 6, 2025
Purdue paper on air-breathing RDEs selected as Editor's Choice by Journal of Propulsion and Power
The paper describes experiments testing the use of natural gas-fueled rotating detonation engines as a pressure-gain combustor, which show promise of significantly improved efficiency.
June 3, 2025
Purdue's Outstanding Young Alumni Award - Nominate by July 1
Nominate an alumnus or alumna by July 1
May 29, 2025
Freeze-drying company founded by AAE researchers earns $300k NSF grant
NSF awards $300K grant to LyoWave to scale up its high-frequency microwave heating tech for biopharma manufacturing
May 20, 2025
AAE marketing and communications lead earns alumni award from NIU
Alan Cesar received the Donald R. Grubb Award for a career that showed the versatility of a journalism degree, including communicating complex, cutting-edge research for AAE.
May 12, 2025
AAE Prof. DeLaurentis selected as Purdue's new executive VP for research
The AAE professor has led national research centers focused on critical areas ranging from missile defense systems and security to artificial intelligence, hypersonics and aerospace transportation.
